| Title : | Brazil : [DVD] [2003] | | Material Type: | video, projectable document | | Authors: | Terry Gilliam, Director | | Publication Date: | 1985 | | ISBN (or other code): | 5039036011891 | | Class number: | 791 | | Abstract: | Brazil is a 1985 British-American dystopian science fiction film[. The film centres on Sam Lowry, a man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living in a small apartment, set in a consumer-driven dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. Brazil's bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of the government depicted in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four,except that it has a buffoonish, slapstick quality and lacks a Big Brother figure. | | Contents note: | Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Kim Greist
Release date: 1985
Running time: 142 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Classification: 15 |
Brazil : [DVD] [2003] [video, projectable document] / Terry Gilliam, Director . - 1985. ISSN : 5039036011891 | Class number: | 791 | | Abstract: | Brazil is a 1985 British-American dystopian science fiction film[. The film centres on Sam Lowry, a man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living in a small apartment, set in a consumer-driven dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. Brazil's bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of the government depicted in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four,except that it has a buffoonish, slapstick quality and lacks a Big Brother figure. | | Contents note: | Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Kim Greist
Release date: 1985
Running time: 142 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Classification: 15 |
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